Independent Reading level: Grade 1-3

"Little Red" (a red-haired kid) goes from their father's bakery (Pat-A-Cake Bakery) along the city blocks to Grandmother's house, trailed all along the way by Wolfie the cat, who's desperate for the cake Little Red is bringing. Speech and thought bubbles contain only pictures (cake, Grandma, exclamation marks) to show what characters are communicating or thinking. As Little Red passes through the neighborhood, readers will notice plenty of fairytale and nursery rhyme allusions (the Dish & Spoon Diner, Cinderella Footwear, Golden Goose Savings Bank, 3 Pig Realty, Mary Q. Contrary Florist, etc.). No one is eaten, and everyone has cake; at the end, readers are prompted to look back through the book to find 24 "lost" sheep, and find the images from fairytales and nursery rhymes.

See also: Tooth Fairy Cat by Claudia Rueda; The Jolly Postman, or, Other People's Letters by Janet Ahlberg, Once Upon A Time ( )

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